December 13th in the woods with a hitch hiker.

[rob.s]

[Mr Tuff]

looks like he was helping set up ur machine MR TUFF

[Roland58]

Dang, that is one ugly spider!

[Scottso]

thats a brown recluse its very poisonis no joke

[Jeep]

He's trying to tell you your battery's low

[Whitebeard]

I think he's rather trying to keep your mind from the treasure hunt because he's guardian of the treasure you are just about to walk over.

Sorry for taking this one away from you JEEP but somebody had to tell him, lol.

[fossis]

Glad it was only a spider, your title sounded rather 'scary'.

Fossis.........

[hammered]

thats a brown recluse its very poisonis no joke

Silly question from the UK, but how can you tell. I thought they had a fiddle/violin mark on their back or something , I can't see anything , but then again we don't have them over here.


hammered

[Adamanteus]

I am no spider expert as snakes are more my thing. However, brown recluses tend to have several different shades. In this photo, you do not get to see the head very well so you can not see the violin shape. Also, they typically have darker colored legs than their bodies and the abdomen is very defined from the head. This example does not show either of these. Not an expert but my two cents for what it is worth.

Adamanteus

[CanadianTrout]

YIKES!

If I had glanced down at my detector and saw that alien so close to my hand I would have freaked. The detector would have went flying in one direction and I would have went flying in another. Screaming blindly like a banshee until I tripped, hit my head on a tree and woke up the next day to the search party my kids would've called out.

I don't like spiders.

[RGINN]

Cool pic and doesn't look like you're shaking in the pic. Doesn't look like the fiddlebacks I'm familiar with due to the legs and the joint in the body. Could be a northern variation, so remember they're nothin to mess with.

[Lookin]

All protein and crunch!